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gist whenever you please." He accepted it. was associated 

 with my father in the investigation of the invertebral ani- 

 mals, and set out with his friend for Egypt. The savants of 

 Europe know how thoroughly he has justified the anticipa- 

 tions of Cuvier. 



What Savigny did for science in Egypt and Syria, and 

 what he has done since his return to France, we cannot 

 here insist upon. Time would fail, and still more the equa- 

 nimity which is required for giving an account of such la- 

 bours. 



We may, however, be permitted to signalize them in a 

 twofold aspect. It is the rare glory of Savigny to have 

 united, in a very great degree, the merits of the accurate, 

 ingenious, and sagacious observer, to those of a generalizer 

 who can be bold without ceasing to be exact. As a gene- 

 ralizer, who does not admire him demonstrating, in 1814, by 

 the most delicate analysis, the analogous composition of the 

 mouths of all the insect tribes, and thus creating in philoso- 

 phical anatomy the first work, and certainly one of the 

 most beautiful, which had been written beyond the families 

 of the vertebra ta ! As an observer, in how many directions 

 has he been the first to advance, and so far in this first 

 efi^ort, that subsequently it was difficult to make further 

 progress ! 



Cuvier, in speaking of his researches concerning the Tu- 

 nicata, does not say that he discovers, but that he reveals ; for 

 it is almost an unknown world into which he has introduced 

 us : and of how many of his other labours might we speak 

 in even more flattering terms. Savigny, along with Cuvier, 

 undoubtedly is the principal originator of the movement 

 which ever since more and more conducts zoologists to the 

 study of the inferior animals, so long neglected, and yet 

 now so fruitful. 



All these admirable works, as well as many others, had 

 occupied some years. What, then, might we not have expect- 

 ed from Savigny \ He was, when admitted into the Academy 

 in 1821, between a glorious past, and perhaps a still more 

 glorious future. He was in the full vigour of life and of ta- 

 lent ; he had immense works in preparation, and others al- 



